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Striking the right tone in meetings, signposting students to appropriate sources of support, and helping students identify their strengths and weaknesses are all vital in ensuring students feel confident in starting the next part of their university career.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To help Academic Tutors do this effectively, the following resources, along with all the other information in this\u00a0Toolkit, may be useful:\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Guide for Academic Tutors, 2025-26<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Signposting flowchart<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Academic Tutor toolkit<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Suggested meeting outlines\/topics<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Guide to running Welcome Week tutor meetings<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Document with other useful links for tutors<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There are also a number of documents and links that you may want to share\u00a0with your students:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Student Charter<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Meeting guidelines and downloadable guide<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Welcome page on Essentials<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Please also encourage all your first year tutees to complete the online Study Smart course<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/i> Direct link to course: Study Smart 2025 link<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

There is a self-reflection section on the back of the certificate where students can rate their confidence in some of the key academic skills covered in the course. Academic Tutors could start a useful conversation with their students by asking to see these at meetings.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Striking the right tone in meetings, signposting students to appropriate sources of support, and helping students identify their strengths and weaknesses are all vital in ensuring students feel confident in starting the next part of their university career.\u00a0 To help Academic Tutors do this effectively, the following resources, along with all the other information in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":1908,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/nosidebar.php","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nResources for Academic Tutors - Student Academic Transitions Toolkit<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Resources to help Academic Tutors support their new and existing students.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.reading.ac.uk\/academic-transitions\/resources-for-academic-tutors\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Resources for Academic Tutors - 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